My Mary : a story of one Barnardo home child / Dawn Beecroft Teetzel.

By:

Teetzel, Dawn Beecroft

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Black Rose Writing, [2024]Description: 267 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781685133726 (pbk.)
168513372X

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographical fiction.

DDC classification:

FIC 23

Summary: This epic tale and enduring love story spans some seventy years and shines light on one woman's life journey as a Barnardo Home Child. January, 1945. Rural Ontario. It's another bleak winter for Mary Thistle. When she receives two successive pieces of bad news, she spirals into a deep melancholia, believing herself a burden to her family. After a failed suicide attempt, Charles, Mary's husband, the one she loves and trusts the most, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. With a timeline of three months looming, Mary rallies, determined to prove herself cured and return home. However, confronting the memories of her past is more difficult than she had expected. And when therapy is paired with electroconvulsive treatments, Mary is left with an outcome she did not bargain for.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
NEW_BOOK	Meaford Public Library New Books	Fiction	FIC Teetz (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	10/08/2024	30349

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This epic tale and enduring love story spans some seventy years and shines light on one woman's life journey as a Barnardo Home Child. January, 1945. Rural Ontario. It's another bleak winter for Mary Thistle. When she receives two successive pieces of bad news, she spirals into a deep melancholia, believing herself a burden to her family. After a failed suicide attempt, Charles, Mary's husband, the one she loves and trusts the most, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. With a timeline of three months looming, Mary rallies, determined to prove herself cured and return home. However, confronting the memories of her past is more difficult than she had expected. And when therapy is paired with electroconvulsive treatments, Mary is left with an outcome she did not bargain for.

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